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Crash Course: Library Resources at the U - Masters Students

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Graduate and Professional Students Welcome and Orientation

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http://z.umn.edu/gradcrash15

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Who are you?

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What is one challenge you have had with doing research

(e.g. literature searching)?

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A taste...

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University of Minnesota Twin Cities Libraries

12 libraries and over 30 different collections

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UL Website - lib.umn.edu

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The research process

Stage 1

Finding funding

Submitting proposals and data management plans

Course work, literature in your discipline

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Stage 2

Conducting research (in the lab)

Finding research (background/scholarly resources)

Managing research (in the lab)

Managing information and resources

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Stage 3

Long-term data access

Long-term publication access

Personal identity

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MNCAT Discovery

Specialized Databases

VS.

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Goal for Fall:

Identify 5-10 journals and/or authors/scholars in your field

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The research process

Stage 1

Finding funding

Submitting proposals and data management plans

Course work, literature in your discipline

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Stage 2

Conducting research (in the lab)

Finding research (background/scholarly resources)

Managing research (in the lab)

Managing information and resources

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Stage 3

Long-term data access

Long-term publication access

Personal identity

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Finding Research - Literature Review

  • Online Encyclopedias, Handbooks, etc.
  • Specialized/Scholarly Databases
  • Web of Science & Google Scholar
  • Accessing materials – InterLibrary Loan

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Online Encyclopedias, Handbooks, etc.

Why useful?

    • interactive tables and graphs
    • full-text searching
    • terms, vocabulary and jargon
    • equations and datasets
    • research methods

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Scholarly databases

Why useful?

    • Find peer reviewed journal articles, books and conference proceedings, data sets, surveys,
    • Find theories, seminal works,
    • Search Dissertations and Theses

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Web of Science & Google Scholar

Why useful?

  • Trace citations--bibliographies (past) and who has cited whom (future)
  • Google, focused on academic publications, linked to U of M Libraries full text

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InterLibrary Loan

    • Get articles, books, book chapters, etc. we don’t own
    • Request online
    • Articles in 2-4 days, books in 5-7 days
    • “U Borrow” for books

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Don’t pay for articles!

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The research process

Stage 1

Finding funding

Submitting proposals and data management plans

Course work, literature in your discipline

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Stage 2

Conducting research (in the lab)

Finding research (background/scholarly resources)

Managing research (in the lab)

Managing information and resources

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Stage 3

Long-term data access

Long-term publication access

Personal identity

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Citation managers

What

    • organizes & manages your research
    • creates citations
    • (some) store & organize PDFs

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Why

    • organize your stuff!
    • easy citation output in many citation standards
    • time saver

Why not

    • up-front time investment
    • some cost $

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Goal for Fall:

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Start using a citation manager. Think about workflow.

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It will save you time later on.

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The research process

Stage 1

Finding funding

Submitting proposals and data management plans

Course work, literature in your discipline

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Stage 2

Conducting research (in the lab)

Finding research (background/scholarly resources)

Managing research (in the lab)

Managing information and resources

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Stage 3

Long-term data access

Long-term publication access

Personal identity management

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Data: management & access

What

    • DRUM
    • provides long-term, public access to your digital data

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Why

    • sharing data is good (& may be required)
    • long-term storage & migration

Why not

    • private data
    • research is not yet finished
    • data owned by others

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Publications: management & access

What

    • UDC
    • provides long-term, public access to your publications

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Why

    • sharing research is good
    • long-term storage & preservation of your works

Why not

    • you don’t own the copyright

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Identity management

What

    • ORCID
    • persistent identifier to link you to your work

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Why

    • distinction from other researchers
    • links you to your research

Why not

    • registration required

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Goal for Fall:

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Create an ORCID

…. it takes 12 seconds.

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Library liaisons

https://www.lib.umn.edu/about/selectors

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A sampling from Liberal Arts:

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Goals for fall

Identify 5-10 journals and/or authors/scholars in your field

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Start using a citation manager.

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Create an ORCID

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And finally,

meet with your librarian.

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Services for graduate students

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Library page:

https://www.lib.umn.edu/services/grads

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Workshops:

https://www.lib.umn.edu/services/workshops/registration

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Contact information

Kate Peterson

katep@umn.edu

190 Wilson Library

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Natalie Reynolds Evans

nreyno@umn.edu

335A Walter Library

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